In addition to the Kennedy assassination, other assassinations have changed the course of American history.
We encourage you to investigate the political climate surrounding these deaths and come to a fuller understanding of how these historical events changed individual lives, our nation and perhaps the world, especially as people
search for answers and also continue the social justice legacy of these heroes.

Robert Kennedy

Martin Luther King, Jr

Malcolm
X

Medgar
Wylie Evers

Milburn

Robert Kennedy

"What I think is clear, is that we can work
together in the last analysis, and what has been going on within the
United States over a period of the last three years - the division,
the violence, the disenchantment with our society; the divisions, whether
it's between blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or
between age groups or on the war in Vietnam - is that we can start to work
together. We are a great country, an unselfish country, and a
compassionate country. I intend to make that my basis for running."

"I have a dream that one day this nation will
rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, 'We hold these truths
to be self evident, that all men are created equal. I have a dream that
one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of
former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of
brotherhood. I have a dream today!"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
from "I Have A Dream," August 28, 1963

Malcolm
XMalcolm X was the Minister of the Nation
of Islam until March 1964
when he left this group and formed the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and
the Organization of Afro-American Unity. Malcolm X was assassinated in
1965 while delivering a speech in New York City. Norman Butler, Thomas
Johnson, and Talmage Hayer were convicted of his murder and sentenced
to life in prison. The FBI investigated the groups that Malcolm X was
affiliated with due to allegations of communist influence. Killed February
21, 1965.

Medgar Wylie Evers African American civil rights
leader whose assassination for his work as field secretary for the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Mississippi galvanized the Civil
Rights Movement.

As a representative of the NAACP, Medgar Evers worked for the most established and in some ways most conservative African American membership organization. He was, by all accounts, a hardworking, thoughtful, and somewhat quiet
man. Yet the work Evers did was groundbreaking, even
radical, in that he risked (and eventually lost) his life bringing
news of his state's violent white supremacy to nationwide
attention. When Evers was assassinated in his front yard by
Byron de la Beckwith, a white racist, he became a symbol of
Movement. Killed June 12, 1963.